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MIDEM: MusicAlly To Present 'Hottest Music Biz Start-Up' Award
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on January 16, 2008
At the MIDEM conference (Marché International De L'édition Musicale) held annually in Cannes, London-based MusicAlly, "the world’s leading digital music research
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Stream Radiohead's Two-Hour DJ Set
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on January 21, 2008
Ever wonder what the members of Radiohead listen to? Wonder no longer. The band's two-hour DJ set, originally broadcast on the BBC on January 17th, is
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CBS Announcement: All Major Labels to Stream Free Music Free on Last.fm
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on January 23, 2008
... by saying that the company had wondered, "could this culture meld with our culture? And I'm pleased to say it did... community is clearly the future."Then Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive took the podium to announce an overview of the plan to distribute music from all of the labels, IODA, Naxos, The Orchard, and about 150K indie labels and bands, for free. Each label ...
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Exclusive: Fabchannel Scores Major Label Live Concert Streaming Deal
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on February 26, 2008
... source oforiginal content from its artists, and fans get a great high-end alternative to fuzzy, distortedconcert videos on YouTube. We seeshows for free and everybody makes money. Perfect. -If you're wondering what these shows look and sound like, here's Brazil's CSS performing in the Main Hall at Paradiso:Fabchannel and Universal Music Netherlands issued the following s...
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Social Networks and Music Discovery: What It Means for Music Businesses
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on February 26, 2008
At a panel with the above title at Digital Music Forum East, tech and music luminaries discussed the capabilities of social networks to act as music discovery engines. Here's what the panelists had to say (partially paraphrased):Maria C. Thomas, SVP, NPR Digital Media- Why do we need more discovery engines? Time and trust. The NPR audience is characterized by curiosity, learning, and...
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The State of the Digital Music Union
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on February 26, 2008
... three terabytes of music. We can't give it to every new startupthat tells us they can't do marketing but plan to go viral. Essentially, we won't license our stuff to a new company unless itseems like something we want to invest in. David Del Beccaro, Founder & President, Music Choice- Today'slicensing terms for new music businesses are not likely to result inprofitability, ...
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Qtrax CEO Addresses Miscued Launch, Says Service Will Soon Go Online
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on February 27, 2008
... distinguishing ourselves as superior to the free unlicensedP2P services.- The industry hasmade a reasonable demand for remuneration. Meeting what they want persong may be difficult for some distributors. But we think we can meet it. It's a very specific setup that we have [updated -- I originally heard this as "an unreasonable demand"]. - We recognize that the music fan is going to be ...
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Nine Inch Nails Releases Album via Torrent, MP3 Store, and Deluxe Box Set
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on March 03, 2008
... license that permits purchasers to remix the songs. Byembracing the best things about digital and physicalreleases, Nine Inch Nails has advanced the dialog that Radiohead began. And as more artists' label contracts expire, we can hopefully expectmore releases like this. If the slow load time of NIN.com today is anyindication, Reznor's plan has already been a success.Nin.com
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Will Collaborative Playlists Replace the Album?
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on March 11, 2008
This morning, I recorded a "Fresh Air" segment for National Public Radio with dulcet-voiced host Terry Gross, regarding new business models in the music industry. We covered some terrain that should be familiar to regular Listening Post readers (the show should air Thursday), then she brought up an interesting point about the loss of the album as the standard unit of musical measurement.Gross...
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Students School David Pogue on the New Copyright Morality
via Wired: Listening Post by Eliot Van Buskirk on March 21, 2008
In his recent speaking engagements, the New York Times' David Pogue has run a demonstration involving asking the audience questions about whether various digital copying activities are morally wrong. Normally, as he proceeds towards the examples that are increasingly illegal, more audience members raise their hands to indicate their moral objection.But when he gave the same talk in front of...
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